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European Parliamentary Elections

Information about the European Election can be found on our election pages. Counting will take place on Sunday 26 May and the local result will be given afterwards by the East Devon Returning Officer and posted on our website. The overall result for the South West and Gibraltar region will be declared by BCP Council at the Civic Centre in Poole later on Sunday evening.

6. Prevention and reporting

Our Anti Fraud, Theft and Corruption Policy sections on culture, members, systems and reporting are all relevant to this Anti Bribery Policy. In essence, our work to make sure the six principles and procedures outlined in the Anti Fraud, Theft and Corruption Policy are embedded mean we have adequate procedures in place to demonstrate a culture/organisation where bribery and corruption are unlikely to succeed.

The array of preventative systems, particularly internal control systems within the Council, has been designed to provide indicators of any fraudulent activity, although generally they should be sufficient in themselves to deter fraud. It is often the alertness of staff, Councillors and the public to indicators of fraud, theft bribery or corruption that enables detection to occur and the appropriate action to take place when there is evidence that fraud or corruption may be in progress.